Patents by Inventor Tadashi Sawada
Tadashi Sawada has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240123332Abstract: A shooting game control method, which is executed by a computer incorporated in a device including a display and a touch panel, includes accepting a touch operation on the touch panel; displaying a first frame indicative of a shooting effective range on the display in accordance with a position of the touch operation; accepting an instruction for an attack on an attack target in a state in which the first frame is displayed; determining whether the attack target in a game image displayed on the display is within the first frame or not, at a time point when the instruction for the attack has been accepted; and controlling the attack on the attack target in the game image in accordance with a result of the determining.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventors: Yuichi TSUCHIYA, Norihiro SAWADA, Tadashi NAGANO, Takeshi ARAKAWA
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Patent number: 10141789Abstract: An equivalent circuit of a converter (4) is represented by a series connection between an equivalent capacitor (41) and an equivalent resistor (42), and the converter (4) includes a controller that adjusts a power factor of the input power by controlling a capacitive reactance (Xc) of the equivalent capacitor (41).Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, TOYO ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Kashiwagi, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada, Takayoshi Tanaka, Takehisa Kashima
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Publication number: 20180109143Abstract: An equivalent circuit of a converter (4) is represented by a series connection between an equivalent capacitor (41) and an equivalent resistor (42), and the converter (4) includes a controller that adjusts a power factor of the input power by controlling a capacitive reactance (Xc) of the equivalent capacitor (41).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, TOYO ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki KASHIWAGI, Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA, Takayoshi TANAKA, Takehisa KASHIMA
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Patent number: 9632564Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit is configured by connecting, in parallel, a plurality of series circuits of an inverse-parallel connection circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. A control unit controls switching of a semiconductor switch so that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes zero voltage in equal periods ? before and after a center point shifted from one zero crossing point in one cycle of the input current by a compensation period (angle) ? calculated from a voltage applied to a resonance circuit constituted by the power receiving coil and a resonance capacitor Cr and an induced voltage of the power receiving coil, and becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between DC terminals in other periods.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada, Masayuki Tobikawa, Ayako Saga, Michio Tamate, Koji Maruyama, Tomotaka Nishijima
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Patent number: 9590428Abstract: An electric power receiving device in one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure comprises an electric power receiving section and a converting section. The converting section comprises a compensation voltage generating section. The compensation voltage generating section generates a compensation voltage capable of canceling out a reactance component in the electric power receiving section, and applies the compensation voltage to the electric power receiving section. The compensation voltage generating section comprises a phase changing section, a physical quantity detecting section, and a searching section. The searching section searches a target phase of the compensation voltage that brings the electric power receiving device into a substantially resonant state, based on a physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detecting section.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Yuki Kashiwagi, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada
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Patent number: 9548674Abstract: An electric power receiving device according to the invention receives an electric power from a primary coil, with which a first alternating voltage is applied and through which a first alternate current flows. The device includes an electric power receiving section and a reducing-voltage generating section. The receiving section includes a secondary coil electromagnetically coupled to the primary coil and a capacitor connected to the secondary coil, and generates a second alternating voltage based upon the first alternating current. The generating section generates a reducing-voltage and applies the reducing-voltage to the receiving section, the reducing-voltage being capable of reducing a reactance voltage generated in the receiving section by a second alternating current generated in the receiving section due to the second alternating voltage, and the reducing-voltage being approximately equal to the second alternating voltage in frequency.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Toshiaki Murai, Daisuke Shimode, Tadashi Sawada
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Patent number: 9412511Abstract: A transformer includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, and a core. The core is to be used in combination with the primary coil or the secondary coil, and includes a conductor storage part and a central part. The conductor storage part is a concave recess formed in an annular manner and configured to store a conductor of the coil therein. The central part is a region inward from the conductor when the core is used in combination with the coil. The central part has a recessed shape having an opening that opens toward a direction opposite to a direction of an opening of the concave recess. The central part has an end, at a side opposite to a side of the opening of the central part, which is generally flat so as to be contiguous with an inner opening edge of the conductor storage part.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Central Japan Railway CompanyInventors: Daisuke Shimode, Toshiaki Murai, Tadashi Sawada
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Patent number: 9231494Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period ? and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period ? such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Sawada, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Masayuki Tobikawa, Ayako Saga, Tomotaka Nishijima, Toshiya Kaneko
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Publication number: 20150249345Abstract: An electric power receiving device in one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure comprises an electric power receiving section and a converting section. The converting section comprises a compensation voltage generating section. The compensation voltage generating section generates a compensation voltage capable of canceling out a reactance component in the electric power receiving section, and applies the compensation voltage to the electric power receiving section. The compensation voltage generating section comprises a phase changing section, a physical quantity detecting section, and a searching section. The searching section searches a target phase of the compensation voltage that brings the electric power receiving device into a substantially resonant state, based on a physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detecting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Yuki KASHIWAGI, Toshiaki MURAl, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA
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Publication number: 20150023079Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period ? and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period ? such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi SAWADA, Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Ayako SAGA, Tomotaka NISHIJIMA, Toshiya KANEKO
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Publication number: 20140372780Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit is configured by connecting, in parallel, a plurality of series circuits of an inverse-parallel connection circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. A control unit controls switching of a semiconductor switch so that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes zero voltage in equal periods ? before and after a center point shifted from one zero crossing point in one cycle of the input current by a compensation period (angle) ? calculated from a voltage applied to a resonance circuit constituted by the power receiving coil and a resonance capacitor Cr and an induced voltage of the power receiving coil, and becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between DC terminals in other periods.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Ayako SAGA, Michio TAMATE, Koji MARUYAMA, Tomotaka NISHIJIMA
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Publication number: 20120326515Abstract: An electric power receiving device according to the invention receives an electric power from a primary coil, with which a first alternating voltage is applied and through which a first alternate current flows. The device includes an electric power receiving section and a reducing-voltage generating section. The receiving section includes a secondary coil electromagnetically coupled to the primary coil and a capacitor connected to the secondary coil, and generates a second alternating voltage based upon the first alternating current. The generating section generates a reducing-voltage and applies the reducing-voltage to the receiving section, the reducing-voltage being capable of reducing a reactance voltage generated in the receiving section by a second alternating current generated in the receiving section due to the second alternating voltage, and the reducing-voltage being approximately equal to the second alternating voltage in frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Toshiaki Murai, Daisuke Shimode, Tadashi Sawada
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Publication number: 20120154098Abstract: A transformer includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, and a core. The core is to be used in combination with the primary coil or the secondary coil, and includes a conductor storage part and a central part. The conductor storage part is a concave recess formed in an annular manner and configured to store a conductor of the coil therein. The central part is a region inward from the conductor when the core is used in combination with the coil. The central part has a recessed shape having an opening that opens toward a direction opposite to a direction of an opening of the concave recess. The central part has an end, at a side opposite to a side of the opening of the central part, which is generally flat so as to be contiguous with an inner opening edge of the conductor storage part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Daisuke SHIMODE, Toshiaki MURAI, Tadashi SAWADA
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Patent number: 4881987Abstract: Direct softening heat treatment of rolled wire rods comprises the steps of:providing wire rods by hot- or warm-rolling, and immediately following rolling, coiling the rolled wire rods in an annealing furnace. Apparatus therefor comprises an annealing furnace provided with an externally or internally built coiler for rolled wire rods disposed adjacent to a rolling line of said wire rods, the coiler being disposed so as to directly receive the rolled wire rods.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1989Date of Patent: November 21, 1989Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kanbara, Kenji Aihara, Masato Tomiku, Yoshio Kawashima, Tadashi Sawada, Shinji Okuda, Mitsuaki Ikeda
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Patent number: 4834345Abstract: Direct softening heat treatment of rolled wire rods comprises the steps:providing wire rods by hot- or warm-rolling, andimmediately following rolling, coiling the rolled wire rods in an annealing furnace. Apparatus therefor comprises an annealing furnace provided with an externally or internally built coiler for rolled wire rods disposed adjacent to a rolling line of said wire rods, the coiler being disposed so as to directly receive the rolled wire rods.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1988Date of Patent: May 30, 1989Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kanbara, Kenji Aihara, Masato Tomiku, Yoshio Kawashima, Tadashi Sawada, Shinji Okuda, Mitsuaki Ikeda
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Patent number: 4708586Abstract: A hollow cylindrical stator and a cylindrical rotor are disposed in the stator with a gap therebetween, the inner peripheral surface of the stator or the outer peripheral surface of the rotor being provided with a helical groove, or thread groove, and evacuation being performed by rotation of the rotor. The width of the helical groove adjacent the suction side of the pump is larger than the width of a ridge between adjacent turns of the groove.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1986Date of Patent: November 24, 1987Assignees: Rikagaku Kenkyusho, Osaka Vacuum, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Sawada, Tatsuji Ikegami, Masashi Iguchi
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Patent number: 4500251Abstract: There is disclosed a multijoint in which the primary moment force caused by a combined gravity of the lower arm which is supported by an elbow joint portion for pivotting the upper and lower arm together and a distal mechanism fitted to the distal end of the lower arm, is minimized by imparting a force opposite the primary moment force thereby reducing the load of an electric motor for driving the elbow joint portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1983Date of Patent: February 19, 1985Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuichi Kiryu, Tadashi Sawada